Theros Pre-release - My deck

Posted By: Brandy

I thought i'd write a little article to look at the deck I played for the Theros pre-release. I started off by picking the Path of Ambition (black) and I ended up getting some really nice rares from my six packs. This is what I got:

Abhorrent Overlord
and then take the victory. Alternatively I could make something unblockable and then swing with that to win. One thing that I was lacking was some card draw though. I got no copies of

Read the Bones
at all which meant that I could run out of fuel at times. I did get a couple of

Scourgemark
but I didn't feel that the card was good enough to justify it even though it does let you draw a card.

So in my first three games I went 3-0 and was pretty happy with how the deck was working. These three games all went long so I was able to drop my big creatures and deal lethal. My last two games however didn't go so well for me. I lost both my last two matches. The first deck was mono black and this guy had got all of the removal in his packs. He was able to destroy everything I played and because I lacked card draw he quickly ran me out of steam. After losing this match I realised that I had pulled a

Dark Betrayal
in one of my packs and I could've sideboarded it in. Hindsight is 20/20 :)

My last match was against U/W and its goal was to hit hard and fast. This was a problem for me because I wanted the game to go long to drop my fatties. He also had a

Cavalry Pegasus
in his deck which meant that my deathtouch wall was pretty irrelevant in the early game. I lost pretty badly to this deck.

So out of 18 people taking part in this event I came away in 5th place. I wish that I could've got some more card draw so that I didn't run out of steam so fast but life goes on and I got some valuable rares to take home :)